#Cavedog total annihilation Patch#
#Cavedog total annihilation full#
#Cavedog total annihilation series#

#Cavedog total annihilation full#

Single-player skirmish battles and full multiplayer support, allowing players to watch and join battles, and form allied teams to share resources, information, and units.More powerful units and weapons are gradually unlocked throughout the campaigns after specific missions or events. Mission objectives include protecting a vital structure or area, capturing a pivotal enemy unit, or simply eliminating all enemy units.

#Cavedog total annihilation series#

The stories of either the Core or the Arm start with an effort to defend the protagonist's home world and initiate a turning point in the war, followed by a series of battles on numerous planets and moons (using Galactic Gates as a form of faster-than-light transportation), before a final strike on the enemy's home world: either on the Arm's bucolic Empyrean or the Core's artificial Jupiter Brain world of Core Prime.

Detailed and exciting campaigns that focus on their respective side's leaders, the Commanders.

#Cavedog total annihilation Patch#

A final patch (version 3.1c, and included here) added 6 new units, including a resurrection kbot! Battle Tactics added 4 new units, 6 new maps, and 100 new missions. The Core Contingency expansion pack added 75 new units (including the infamous Krogoth), 50 new maps, 25 new missions, and 6 new world types. More than 150 official units and 25 official missions per side in a single player campaign.

Numerous world types to do battle on, such as grasslands, forests, deserts, archipelagos, open water, lava, metal, ice, crystal, acid, and even moons.

TA runs comfortably in high resolutions and even on modern dual monitor setups, so players can see more of the battlefield.

True 3D terrain that units can climb over, into, and around, on extra-large 3D-generated maps.A unique tracking feature allows players to follow single units, entire armies, or even projectiles across the landscape. Fully-articulated 3D units and buildings, with a diverse complement of unit types - for example, aircraft, amphibious tanks, infantry bots (kbots), vehicles, hovercraft, ships, submarines, unit production factories, powerful stationary defenses, and long-range weapons.Upon release, the original TA game boasted: Of course, these requirements were for computers in 1997 modern day machines easily exceed those recommended specifications, but it is still recommended to have a 1 GHz processor and 512 MB of RAM for the updated game engine. When TA was released, the minimum computer requirements were a Pentium 100 MHz processor and 16 MB of RAM. Two expansion packs were released: The Core Contingency on April 30, 1998, and Battle Tactics exactly 2 months later on June 30, 1998. It was released on September 30, 1997, and was the first RTS game to feature 3D units and terrain. Key information Total Annihilation (TA) is a real-time strategy (RTS) video game created by Cavedog Entertainment under the guidance of lead designer Chris Taylor.

A war lasting 4,000 years followed, with the Arm mass-producing clones as pilots for its vehicles and the Core duplicating consciousness-embedded microchips to pilot its own machines. However, the balance is broken by a technological breakthrough that allows the consciousness of a human being to be reliably transferred into a machine, thereby theoretically granting infinite life, in a process called 'patterning.' Following a mandate imposed on humanity by the Core requiring everyone to undergo patterning as a public health measure, a rebel band is formed out of colonies from the edges of the galaxy (hence their name, the Arm), whose members refused to leave their natural bodies to join the Core's machines. The Core's technological and economic triumphs have allowed humanity to colonize most of the Milky Way and enjoy peace and prosperity. Story / Background In the distant future, the galaxy is ruled by a central body of humans and artificial intelligences called the Core (a contraction of 'Consciousness Repository'). For each side, the only acceptable outcome is the complete elimination of the other. Both sides now crippled beyond repair, the remnants of their armies continue to battle on ravaged planets, their hatred fuelled by over four thousand years of total war. The Core and the Arm have all but exhausted the resources of a galaxy in their struggle for domination. What began as a conflict over the transfer of consciousness from flesh to machines escalated into a war which has decimated a million worlds.